Service Selection Commission, India conducts examinations for recruitment to lower categories of posts. The Staff Selection Commission is an attached office of the Department of Personnel and Training and comprises of Chairman, two Members and a Secretary-cum-Controller of Examinations who are appointed on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Central Government from time to time. The Commission is provided such supporting staff as considered necessary by the Central Government.

The Staff Selection Commission has its Headquarter at New Delhi. All Examinations as well as administrative matters are submitted to the Chairman through two Members. The Secretary functions under both the Members. Besides, there are post of one Director, one Deputy Secretary, two Joint Directors, nine Under Secretaries, four Deputy Directors, one Finance & Budget Officer, one Assistant Director (OL), 24 Section Officers and more than 183 supporting officers / staff working at the Headquarters for discharging the duties and responsibilities of the Commission. An Organisational Chart of the Commission (Hqrs.) is given at Appendix II,. The functions of various Branches/Sections of the Hqrs. are briefly outlined under the heading “Functions of the Sections”.

For smooth conduct of examinations through a large network of examination centres/sub-centres situated in different parts of the country for the convenience of the candidates, the Commission has been provided with a Regional set-up. At present, there are seven Regional Offices at Allahabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai, Bangalore and two Sub-Regional Offices at Raipur and Chandigarh. Each Regional Office is headed by a Regional Director and each Sub-Regional office is headed by a Deputy Director. The details of the functions and operative jurisdictions of these Regional and Sub-Regional Offices are given at Appendix-IV, . The Commission may, with the approval of the Department of Personnel & Training, open more Regional/Sub-Regional Offices of the Commission at such other places, as it may consider necessary.

Functions of SSC

1. To make recruitment to (i) all Group “B” posts in the various Ministries/Departments of the Govt. of India and their Attached and Subordinate Offices which are in the pay scales the maximum of which is Rs.10,500 or below and (ii) all non-technical Group “C” posts in the various Ministries/Departments of the Govt. of India and their Attached and Subordinate Offices, except those posts which are specifically exempt from the purview of the Staff Selection Commission.

2. To conduct examinations and/or interviews, whenever required for recruitment to the posts within its purview. The examinations would be held as far as possible at different centres and successful candidates posted, to the extent possible, to their home State/Region.

3. In particular, to hold Open Competitive Examinations for recruitment to the posts of:

(i) Lower Division Clerks in the various Ministries/Departments, Attached and Subordinate Offices of the Government of India including those participating in the Central Secretariat Clerical Service /Indian Foreign Service (B), Railway Board Secretariat Clerical Service and the Armed Forces Headquarters Clerical Service;

(ii) Grade “C” and Grade ‘D” Stenographers of the Central Secretariat Stenographers Service and equivalent Grades of Indian Foreign Service (B) Railway Board Secretariat Stenographers Service/Armed Forces Head quarters Stenographers Service and to the posts of Stenographers in other Departments including Attached and Subordinate Offices of the Government of India not participating in the aforesaid Services;

(iii) Assistants in the various Ministries/Departments including Attached and Subordinate Offices of the Government of India including those participating in the Central Secretariat Service/ IFS (B)/ Railway Board Secretariat Service/Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service;

(iv) Inspectors of Central Excise in different Collectorates of Central Excise, Inspectors of Income-Tax in different charges of the Commissioners of Income-Tax, Preventive Officers and Examiners in different Custom Houses, Assistant Enforcement Officers in Directorate of Enforcement;

(vi) Divisional Accountants, Auditors and Accountants under the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India and other Accounts Departments and Upper Division Clerks in Attached and Subordinate Offices of the Government of India.

5. The Commission conducts periodical Typewriting Tests in English and Hindi.

6. The Commission prepares schemes for recruitment to all Group “B” posts which are in the pay scale of Rs 9300 to 34800 with a grade pay of Rs 42000 or below and Group “C” non-technical posts in the Ministries/Departmental of the Govt. of India including its Attached and Subordinate Offices in consultation with the Departments concerned.

7. The Commission conducts examinations/selections for recruitment to all Group “B” posts which are in the pay scales the maximum of which is Rs.10, 500 or below and all Group “C” non-technical posts in the Ministries/Departments of the Govt. from time to time.

8. The Commission performs such other functions as may be entrusted to it by the Central Govt. from time to time.

SSC Results 2012 Bangladesh Published on May 7 – All Boards SSC Result 2012 www.educationboardresults.gov.bd

SSC Results 2012 Bangladesh

SSC Result 2012 will be published on Monday, May 7, 2012, as per information from reliable source of Intermediate and Secondary Education Boards Bangladesh. This date is now official, as Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid confirmed the SSC result publication date on April 29, 2012.

Education minister Nahid said that a copy of the results would be handed over to prime minister Sheikh Hasina at 10am on May 7. “Formally the results will be published through a press conference at the ministry at 1am,” he added

The examinees would be able to collect their results after the press meet, Nahid added.

Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations began on Wednesday, 1st February, 2012 across the country. The tests took place simultaneously in 2,464 centers under eight general education boards, Dakhil and vocational board. SSC Practical tests completed on March 4, 2012. In this SSC Exam 2012, all the SSC exam papers had creative questions except Bengali second paper, English first and second paper and mathematics.

SSC Exam 2012 Stats– Bangladesh

Exam Name

Total Students

Boys

Girls

Educational Institutions

SSC Exam

1,052,969

520,115

532,818

Dakhil Exam

275,930

SSC (Vocational)

91,158

Total

1,420,057

735,229

684,828

26,855

The education ministry had said the SSC examination results 2012 will be published within 60 days like the previous year. Information of published SSC Results 2012 will be exchanged online among the education board control rooms and related examination centres and available through online at www.educationboardresults.gov.bd

This year, the number of total students took part in SSC exam 2012 from abroad is 274. They sat for the SSC exam 2012 tests at Jeddah, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Bahrain and Tripoli centres under Dhaka Education Board.

This year, the physically challenged students got 20 minutes of extra time instead of 15 minutes.

Moreover, students with disabilities, who cannot see or hear or are suffering from cerebral palsy or who cannot write, allowed to take transcribers with them.